Static Application Security Testing Contract Job Trends in Central London

Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Static Application Security Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 123 139
Rank change year-on-year -10 +16 +47
Contract jobs citing Static Application Security Testing 1 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.049% 0.14% 0.038%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.055% 0.15% 0.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £809 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £900 £823 £675
Median % change year-on-year +9.42% +21.85% +24.42%
75th Percentile - £836 £688
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £625 £688 £675
% change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% +8.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Central London

Static Application Security Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,834 1,972 2,326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 89.03% 92.28% 89.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,274 1,233 1,660
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £436 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% +2.22% -3.05%
75th Percentile £668 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 21 26
10th Percentile £19.86 £18.10 £17.97
25th Percentile £23.15 £22.00 £22.63
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -20.54%
75th Percentile £41.85 - £39.50
90th Percentile £46.53 £43.75 £65.00
London median hourly rate £34.50 £35.00 £30.08
% change year-on-year -1.44% +16.36% -19.79%

Static Application Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Static Application Security Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Static Application Security Testing job vacancy trend in Central London

Static Application Security Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Static Application Security Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Static Application Security Testing

Static Application Security Testing
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Static Application Security Testing within the Central London region over the 6 months to 29 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London -9 1 £900 +9.42% 2
Static Application Security Testing
London

Static Application Security Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes